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A total of eight people were hurt in a crash in South Los Angeles last week when a police cruiser collided with a tow truck in a four-vehicle crash. NBC in Los Angeles reports that the crash happened on Wednesday, June 3rd, just before 10:00 p.m. at the intersection of Main Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.  Two LAPD  officers were inside their police SUV and entering the intersection...

Not every incident of children attempting to drive a car ends as happily as the one just a month ago when a five-year-old boy borrowed his parents’ car to go buy a Lamborghini. While he ended up being stopped by a highway patrolman and everything turned out alright, two brothers in Missouri, ages 6 and 7, died after they took their grandparents’ car out for a spin last week. Global...

Hit-and-run accidents are dangerous for several reasons. First, if an individual is injured due to the accident from which the assailing driver fled, the victim may not receive timely medical care. Secondly, the individual who fled the scene may cause further damage due to negligence or unknown mechanical damage to their vehicles. Overall, it is simply good policy to take responsibility, stay at the scene, and call law enforcement in...

Last month, a man who was found guilty in a hit-and-run case in 2016 was sentenced to several years in prison in addition to the time he has already spent in jail. 32-year-old Gilbert Diego Alvarez, a former California gang member, admitted to prosecutors that he had fled the scene of a rear-end collision that happened on Highway 88 on January 31, 2016. The two occupants of the other vehicle...

Cities have had to face the problem of illegal street racing for almost as long as cars became a part of our daily lives. In more recent years, however, California and other states are now dealing with the problem of street takeovers.  Street takeovers usually happen when a group of individuals and spectators decide to close down a street or intersection. While the traffic is at a halt, they perform...

Although there is likely to be less traffic on our streets and freeways over the Memorial Day weekend because of the current COVID-19 pandemic, NBC in Los Angeles reports that the CHP and Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office will be intensifying patrols.  Their primary focus will be on keeping DUI and other unsafe drivers off the road over the holiday. According to the statement issued by CHP Commissioner, Warren Stanley, ...

If anything positive can be said to have come out of the COVID-19 pandemic is that there are 75% fewer vehicle crashes and fatalities on California’s roads due to stay at home orders across the state. Because businesses were closed, events canceled, and tourism ground to a halt, California’s freeways, interstates, and streets were mostly empty. However, though the roads have been relatively safer due to the absence of vehicles,...

When a driver chooses to drive while under the influence of a substance, they are putting everyone on the road and their passengers in grave danger. Such was the case in a recent crash in San Jose. Authorities in San Jose have released the identity of the suspected DUI driver responsible for a fatal crash that happened on Highway 85 in South San Jose last week. The accident left four...

You would think that the fear of losing their job, not to mention possible jail time, would keep commercial drivers from committing hit-and-run. Nevertheless. that's what happened in an accident that happened in Fresno. Your Central Valley reported on the crash. Around 3:30 AM, a pickup truck crashed into an 18-wheeler and flipped onto its side. The crash happened near Orange Avenue and Central Avenue. The driver of the truck...

An explosion at a hash oil manufacturing business in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday has left 11 firefighters injured.  CBS News reports that the explosion and fire happened at approximately 6:30 p.m. at a one-story commercial building located 327 East Boyd Street in an area of the city known as the Toy District.  According to Fire Captain Erik Scott with the Los Angeles Fire Department, witnesses heard “one significant explosion”...